The Michael Knowles Show - January 27, 2022


Ep. 931 - Biden’s Next Diversity Hire


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Biden picks his next Supreme Court nominee on the basis of her race and color, not her qualifications or her experience. Michael Knowles explains why this is a good thing. He also talks about the dangers of COID and COID testing.

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00:00:00.000 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the oldest member of the court,
00:00:04.320 has signaled that he will soon retire. And the search for Breyer's replacement
00:00:08.500 should move relatively quickly. The reason for that is that President Biden has already taken
00:00:14.680 94% of the country out of the running. Joe Biden has decided that his next Supreme Court nominee
00:00:22.200 will be a black woman. Forget about qualifications. Forget about talent. 1.00
00:00:28.540 Forget about experience. Joe is going to pick his judicial nominee just like he chose his vice
00:00:36.940 president. He's going to choose her on sex and skin color first. Maybe you consider the person 1.00
00:00:43.920 second. No one wants a new liberal judge on the court, of course. But this is actually relatively
00:00:50.820 good news. A liberal replacing a liberal does not change the balance of the court. Breyer was going
00:00:56.960 to go away sooner or later. And the decision to step down now almost certainly means one thing.
00:01:04.200 Justice Breyer thinks that the Democrats are headed for disaster in the November midterm elections.
00:01:10.360 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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00:03:10.860 Joe Biden's got another diversity hire coming up. It's as simple as that. He did the same thing
00:03:17.560 with his vice presidential selection for Kamala Harris, and now he's going to do it with his
00:03:23.160 judge. Kamala Harris got her job, not because she is qualified, not because she is intelligent,
00:03:29.220 not because she is educated. I don't think she is any of those things, but even if she were,
00:03:34.400 that wouldn't be why she got the job. She got her job because she is black and because she's a woman. 1.00
00:03:41.480 You don't need to take my word for it. That's what Joe Biden said.
00:03:44.080 This next judicial nominee for the Supreme Court will get her job. Won't be him. It'll be her job 0.69
00:03:51.040 because she is black and because she is a woman. Her qualifications, her experience will have very
00:03:58.880 little to do with it. The Democrats now are leaking some of the potential nominees and they're,
00:04:05.220 they're leaking them not, not in a list of qualifications or resume or accomplishment.
00:04:09.740 It's just like looking at a bunch of paint swatches. They're just doing it on race and sex.
00:04:18.560 Clarence Thomas reacted against this when Clarence Thomas, the senior most conservative judge on the
00:04:25.640 court, when he was, when he was graduating from law school, this was after affirmative action came
00:04:31.440 about and he graduated from law school, very serious law student. He's become one of the most
00:04:37.820 accomplished jurists in the country and he had trouble getting a job. And he realized he had
00:04:43.080 trouble getting a job, even though he graduated from the top law school in the country, even though
00:04:46.480 he had this great resume, he had trouble getting a job because people didn't think that he got to
00:04:51.920 where he was on, on the merits. People assumed that he got to where he was on the color of his skin
00:04:57.680 because of affirmative action. And he said it was at that point that he saw that the value of his
00:05:03.460 Yale law degree was, was basically nothing. It was at that point he felt the sting of racism
00:05:12.380 associated with affirmative action. And that's what's going to happen to this Supreme Court nominee.
00:05:17.800 Doesn't matter how qualified this person is or how unqualified this person is.
00:05:21.400 They will always, she will always be a diversity hire. Kamala Harris will always be a diversity hire. 0.94
00:05:28.540 It's sad. It's sad. You don't, I don't think that's how we want these things to happen.
00:05:36.900 Clarence Thomas was not a diversity hire, by the way. George H.W. Bush didn't say, I will pick, 0.89
00:05:43.260 I will pick a black man of this. I'm not saying that race didn't factor into his calculation,
00:05:49.580 but actually the promise that came from George H.W. Bush and his staff was, we're going to pick a
00:05:54.960 true conservative. He, he prioritized Thomas's ideas, his judicial philosophy over any of his
00:06:01.800 physical characteristics. Not so here. And that's sad. If you were to be the first black woman,
00:06:10.040 Supreme Court justice, wouldn't you want to be picked based on your talent and your intelligence
00:06:13.940 and your career? I think so. But the left doesn't really care. The left just wants the power and
00:06:19.680 they'll take it any way that they can get it. Jen Psaki is getting peppered with questions about 1.00
00:06:25.120 this and Jen Psaki has doubled down. Yes, this regardless of qualifications, this will be a black 1.00
00:06:29.520 woman on the court. Does President Biden plan to honor his pledge to nominate a black woman to the
00:06:35.300 court? Well, I've commented on this previously. The president has stated and reiterated his
00:06:41.040 commitment to nominating a black woman to the Supreme Court and certainly stands by that.
00:06:46.980 Um, for today again, uh, I'm just not going to, uh, be able to say anything about, uh, any specifics
00:06:53.940 until of course, uh, justice by Breyer makes any, uh, announcement. Should he decide to make an
00:06:59.460 announcement? Now, speaking of Kamala Harris and the last time this came around, some people are
00:07:05.400 suggesting Kamala Harris could be the nominee because Joe Biden's got this political problem right now.
00:07:10.800 Namely, uh, Harris and Biden appear to hate one another. Uh, Harris is extremely unpopular. She 1.00
00:07:18.020 may actually drag down the ticket. Joe Biden is the most unpopular, uh, the least popular president
00:07:24.100 in recent history. And somehow his vice president is even less popular. So what do you do with Kamala? 0.92
00:07:29.360 Well, you could throw her on the court and then you don't have to deal with her anymore. And then you 0.96
00:07:32.700 take her off the table as a potential rival and as a pinch potential drag on your ticket. 1.00
00:07:36.780 It would be a travesty for the country because Kamala Harris is not particularly smart, 1.00
00:07:43.340 not particularly well-educated and doesn't have a lot of integrity, but it might solve a political
00:07:49.280 problem for Biden. It's, it's, it's not ironic. It's providential. You might say that we are seeing
00:07:57.900 the affirmative action Supreme court nomination occurring right as the court is reconsidering
00:08:05.180 affirmative action. There was a major affirmative action case. We talked about it a couple of days
00:08:09.060 ago coming up before the court. Affirmative action is unconstitutional. Even the judges who upheld
00:08:15.800 affirmative action acknowledged that it was unconstitutional. About 20 years ago, the last
00:08:20.020 time there was a major affirmative action case where the court upheld it, Sandra Day O'Connor, 0.56
00:08:24.740 who was the swing vote there, a conservative appointee who then became the swing vote and sided with
00:08:29.980 the liberals. She said, obviously affirmative action is unconstitutional. It's wrong. The text
00:08:35.180 of the 14th amendment plainly prevents this sort of discrimination and subsequent laws that came
00:08:40.200 after the 14th amendment, this kind of discrimination on the basis of race, but we're going to let it 0.97
00:08:44.100 stay for a little while, but obviously it's limited in time. And in about 25 years, we've got to get rid
00:08:48.660 of it. Well, here we are now. And whoever gets picked for this, this court seat might, might very well be
00:08:55.320 the last dying gasp of affirmative action. We can only hope. Why, why is, is Joe Biden so desperate
00:09:04.160 to fill this court seat now? Why, why is Justice Breyer so desperate to get off the court now? Yeah,
00:09:08.960 he's a little bit long in the tooth, sure. But I think what it signals is that the Democrats know
00:09:13.740 they're headed for disaster in the midterm elections. They're predicted overwhelmingly to lose the House of
00:09:18.440 Representatives right now, and they may well lose the Senate. If they lose the Senate, then Cocaine Mitch is
00:09:23.780 going to come in and he is going to show you his little friend, and he is going to stop any Supreme
00:09:29.200 Court nomination because it needs the approval of the Senate. And so as it stands right now, they've got
00:09:35.180 six, seven months to get this nomination through. And so they're going to do the best they can.
00:09:42.160 Right now, looking ahead, not just to 2022, but to 2024, Joe Biden is losing to a generic Republican.
00:09:49.380 He's losing pretty significantly to the generic Republican who goes up on the ballot against him.
00:09:55.360 But there's a caveat here. This is according to a Politico morning consult poll.
00:09:59.480 When you put Biden up against some Republican, Biden gets crushed. When you put Biden up against any
00:10:07.380 actual Republicans, Biden wins. So if Biden goes up against Trump, according to this poll,
00:10:14.880 45-44, Biden wins. Biden goes up against Cruz, number two guy last time, 45-39, Biden wins.
00:10:25.340 If Biden goes up against Pence, 44-42, Biden wins. Even DeSantis, who is the darling right now,
00:10:34.940 44-39, Biden wins. What does this mean? What are we supposed to make of this? First thing we're
00:10:43.280 supposed to make of this is there's no such thing as a generic Republican or a generic Democrat.
00:10:50.080 You always hear this from people who don't pay a lot of attention to politics and who are a little
00:10:53.880 bit squishy. They'll say, oh, if we could just have a normal candidate. Oh, if we could just have a kind
00:10:58.720 of normal, regular candidate. Oh, Biden would get crushed. But the problem is there's Trump.
00:11:05.920 There's Cruz. There's DeSantis. There's Pence. Pence is about as generic as they come.
00:11:10.400 There's whoever, Hawley, Haley, Kristi Noem. Oh, the problem is just these particular people.
00:11:19.280 There's no generic person. Everyone has a personality, okay? And I also don't believe the
00:11:26.820 poll. I don't believe this poll for one second. I think that right now what the Democrats are doing
00:11:31.380 is they're trying to push certain polls onto the public to suggest that the leading Republican
00:11:38.520 candidates can't win. Better get rid of all your top candidates, Republicans. Go just pick some
00:11:43.660 squish guy that no one's ever heard of. Go pick Romney 3.0. I don't think so. I don't really buy 1.00
00:11:49.780 that. But my takeaway from this poll is actually the opposite that the Dems want us to take away.
00:11:53.560 If there's no such thing as a generic Republican, that's fine. Give me an eccentric Republican.
00:11:57.740 Give me a Republican with personality. Give me a Republican with a backbone. Biden is weak.
00:12:02.540 Let's go for it. Let's go all the way.
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00:12:44.840 Why? Why are people shifting, even if they don't like the Republican candidates,
00:12:48.800 even if the poll is right about that, why are people shifting into the Republican camp?
00:12:53.500 I don't think it's because they're reading very obscure political philosophy,
00:12:58.260 and they're engaged in all the very online debates between the various factions of the right,
00:13:03.840 and they've gone back to read the Enlightenment philosophers and Aristotle. No, do you know
00:13:08.940 what I think it is? I think they're looking at the southern border, and they're realizing that we
00:13:14.760 don't have a border, that we don't have a country anymore, because millions of people are pouring 1.00
00:13:18.120 across. I think they're looking at their streets, especially if they're living in a major city,
00:13:22.300 and they're watching people go around and rob and steal and rape, kill, pillage, and burn.
00:13:28.660 And they're saying, well, this is bad. Stop doing this. This is bad policy. Give me the other guy.
00:13:34.440 Sometimes conservatives, we get a little bit too much in our own heads, and we say, well,
00:13:38.500 this is because of this philosophy, and because someone read this think piece that appeared in
00:13:44.560 this magazine. No, it comes down to pretty basic stuff. The big issues where Republicans stand to make
00:13:49.880 huge gains. What are they? Education, immigration, crime. Education, immigration, crime. This is the
00:13:58.040 area where the difference between public opinion and elite opinion, certainly in the Democratic Party,
00:14:04.080 but in a lot of Republican circles too, is huge. Huge chasm here. Americans want normal education, 0.52
00:14:12.620 kick out the creepy racial and sexual stuff. They want an actual border and much less immigration, 0.63
00:14:18.440 both illegal and legal immigration, drastically reduced, and they want to lock up criminals.
00:14:25.320 This is the basic stuff that a society does. And the elites, mostly in the Democrat Party,
00:14:30.140 but in the Republican Party too, have forgotten a lot about that. There is a comedian, Michael
00:14:34.220 Rappaport, very emotional, very left-wing comedian, very outspoken Democrat comedian. He just took a video.
00:14:42.600 He was in a drugstore in New York, and he sees a guy, some criminal, walk in, fill up a bag full of stuff
00:14:49.500 in a drugstore, and just walk right out without paying.
00:14:52.440 Yo, I'm looking at this shit, this dude, this motherfucker. Yo, this dude is, I can't believe
00:15:01.300 I'm seeing this shit. This motherfucker. Yo, this fucking guy just filled his two bags up
00:15:14.620 with everything in Rite Aid right here on 80th and 1st Avenue. He's walking down the street like
00:15:22.500 shit is Gucci. Look at me in my face like what's good. He's, I was watching him the whole time.
00:15:30.400 My man just went Christmas shopping in January. He had the condoms, the shampoo.
00:15:38.560 But that's not possible, Michael Rappaport, because AOC told me this isn't really happening.
00:15:44.700 There's been a spate of drugstore robberies going on coast to coast, sea to shining sea,
00:15:50.840 CVS, Walgreens, Dwayne Reed, all these places are closing stores, and they're closing stores
00:15:56.300 because people are robbing them blind. There are other reasons as well, but that's a big part of it.
00:16:01.620 Talking millions and millions of dollars worth of stuff, and the left, led by AOC, says,
00:16:06.080 one, this isn't happening, and if you say it's happening, you're a racist. Why? I don't know.
00:16:09.940 You are. And two, the reason it is happening is because people need to feed their families.
00:16:16.420 They always, this is like when Dr. Fauci said, there is no gain of function research. We're
00:16:21.320 not funding gain of function, and all the gain of function we're funding is fine.
00:16:25.980 Which is it? You're speaking out of both sides of your mouth. You're contradicting yourself.
00:16:29.120 That's what AOC is doing here. There is no robbery epidemic in drugstores, and also it's great
00:16:35.920 that they're stealing stuff. They need to feed their families. Well, Michael Rappaport says here,
00:16:39.400 he ain't stealing a loaf of bread. This guy was stealing boxes of condoms, okay? You don't need
00:16:45.640 that to feed your, you need that to stop from having a family. You need that to prevent your
00:16:49.580 family from growing if you're not going to remain abstinent, but you certainly don't need,
00:16:55.480 you don't need that to feed your family. So this guy goes in, steals a bunch of stuff. He's
00:16:59.660 probably going to go sell it on the street and take the money. Daily Wire reported that
00:17:04.680 CVS, just CVS alone has announced it will close about 900 retail locations over the next three
00:17:11.140 years. That's about 9% of its 10,000 stores. This is at least partially attributed to the increased
00:17:17.560 theft. And Michael Rappaport, he's so confused. The Democrats, they're so confused. Why? How is this
00:17:26.280 happening? In New York City, criminals are being allowed to go into shops and commit crimes and then
00:17:33.700 just walk away and not be arrested or prosecuted. Oh, we need to get some investigators. How did this
00:17:40.680 happen? Could it, could it have something to do with the fact that Democrat prosecutors and
00:17:46.040 politicians decriminalized all of this stuff? Could it? Look, I don't know. I'm no forensic
00:17:52.140 investigator, but it would seem to me that when you have a bunch of prosecutors and politicians go in
00:17:58.380 and say, we're not going to prosecute these crimes. And if you were arrested for these crimes, we're
00:18:03.560 going to let you go. That, hmm, maybe you're going to get more of those crimes. I don't know. What do I
00:18:08.760 know? I'm no expert. I don't have a degree in this stuff. Michael Rappaport voted for this stuff.
00:18:14.960 New York voted for this stuff. It's very sad. I love New York. It's, it's my home state. Spent a
00:18:22.780 lot of time there since I was a kid. And there is, there actually is a kind of base level conservatism
00:18:29.160 to New Yorkers. A lot of people outside of New York don't understand this. It's the kind of Trumpy
00:18:34.400 conservatism. The idea that I'm not going to take any BS from anybody. The idea that I'm going to get
00:18:40.040 in your face a little bit. The idea that I, you know, it's the, the, the political scene in New
00:18:46.420 York, it's not like Berkeley, California. It's not, not like San Francisco. It's not hippy dippy
00:18:50.220 stuff, but they still vote for Democrats. And then they have to deal with the results of these policies.
00:18:55.580 You don't need some big, thick thesis on political philosophy to understand, let the criminals out,
00:19:02.280 going to get more crime. Okay. And I think there are a lot of people who are, I don't know about
00:19:07.460 Michael Rappaport. He's still probably a big dem, but there are a lot of people who are in the
00:19:12.400 middle, who are independents, who are soft liberals, who are going to look at this and say, you know,
00:19:17.320 I don't think so. No more. They are, they tried to do this in this mayoral election. The guy who ran
00:19:22.520 as a Democrat, Eric Adams, but he ran on a very pro cop kind of message. And so he was, he was
00:19:28.040 positioning himself as the moderate Democrat. He's not governing as a moderate Democrat. So it's
00:19:31.300 probably not going to work. But that, that, I think that was part of the phenomenon. And you saw it
00:19:36.720 obviously in the nineties with Giuliani, even a very, very left-wing city like New York
00:19:41.480 elects this Republican who's specifically tough on crime, most successful mayor in the history of New
00:19:48.060 York. This is not complicated for Republicans. Crime, education, and immigration, depending on which
00:19:58.280 area of the country you're running in. Very simple. Run on those three things. You're going to do pretty 0.52
00:20:01.700 well. Why is this? The, the Democrats are probably going to have to try to move in this direction, but
00:20:10.620 they're, they're facing a problem right now, which is that they're, they, they want to win over the
00:20:14.600 moderates and the soft liberals who are flocking to the Republicans. But if they do that, they'll
00:20:19.260 irritate their base, which will kill them. Right now, the New York attorney general has just, uh,
00:20:26.420 appointed a council who supports the abolish ICE movement. AG Letitia James has announced that
00:20:34.460 Zephyr Teachout, what a name, Zephyr Teachout, a left-wing attorney and professor at Fordham School
00:20:41.840 of Law will join her team. She has, uh, not only said she wants to abolish ICE, she says she wants to
00:20:49.800 prosecute ICE, immigration enforcement. The Democrats are beholden to their base. There's,
00:20:57.600 there's no, they, they know they're, these are not stupid people. They know that this is not playing
00:21:01.620 well in Peoria. It's not, not even playing all that well in Queens or Brooklyn, but they are beholden
00:21:08.660 to their base. And so they've got to put themselves on the unpopular side of lots and lots of issues.
00:21:15.080 You see this specifically play out with education. Right now, conservatives are running on a platform
00:21:20.740 of education transparency, curriculum transparency, meaning teachers need to put the lesson plans and
00:21:27.120 the reading list up on websites so the parents can see it. And Democrats don't want that because
00:21:32.320 Democrats are beholden to the teacher unions and to the radical left. So they know that the minute you
00:21:36.940 put all these creepy sexual and racial books on the website for everyone to see that the parents are
00:21:41.880 going to be upset and are going to push back on them. So now Democrats are on the anti-transparency
00:21:47.720 side of the issue. Not a good place to be if you're in politics. This is how you can win. The
00:21:55.620 secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, has put on a good show talking to the camera saying,
00:22:03.660 everything's great. Don't worry. Donald Trump's doing a great job. Behind closed doors, there is a
00:22:09.260 hidden just recently leaked tape of Mayorkas admitting that education, that immigration has
00:22:19.240 never been worse. It's reached 20, 30 year lows in terms of immigration enforcement. And this might be
00:22:27.440 the worst that we have ever seen in this country. Now, the leaked tape, which we have, is nothing new.
00:22:35.220 We all know that that is the case and we all know that they know that that is the case.
00:22:40.300 But it's refreshing. It's delightful. It gives you some schadenfreude to hear them say it because it
00:22:47.000 raises the question, well, okay, if it's this bad, why don't you just fix it? They can't fix it
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00:24:42.240 back with a lot more. A good rule in politics is to assume that everything that you say to a group
00:25:01.160 of people, certainly everything you say, if there are any journalists in the room, but even your own
00:25:06.120 staff, anything you write in a text message or an email could appear on the cover of the newspapers.
00:25:15.440 You should just assume that. Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, did not assume that. And so
00:25:22.440 he was caught on tape admitting that immigration is worse now than possibly ever.
00:25:27.020 We should have enough personnel to take care of the Southern boys. And I mean, that's the solution. 1.00
00:25:33.540 And that hasn't been the case. Look, it's worse now than it frankly has been in at least 20 years,
00:25:40.080 if not ever. But that is not, that is absolutely not the solution. And that's a hardship that you're
00:25:45.400 enduring in service of mission. It's hard. It's really hard. Now, why is it? Is it,
00:25:52.060 is it worse perhaps because Joe Biden said, surge, come on over, come here? Is it worse because the
00:26:00.220 Biden administration is secretly flying illegal aliens into remote parts of the country into
00:26:05.120 smaller airports so the media don't even notice? Is it worse because the Biden administration is
00:26:10.780 encouraging this kind of stuff? Maybe. That's how, that's generally how incentives work. When you
00:26:17.780 incentivize something, you get more of it. So why is he doing it? Is he a masochist?
00:26:21.940 No, it's because it's what his base wants. And it's because he believes it will give Democrats
00:26:26.480 a long-term electoral advantage because illegal aliens and specifically, one, they can very often 0.96
00:26:33.240 vote illegally. But two, certainly their children who receive birthright citizenship or their
00:26:38.540 grandchildren or their great-grandchildren are still overwhelmingly likely to vote for Democrats,
00:26:42.860 even several generations down the road. So this is a long-term play by Democrats.
00:26:47.460 The problem is moderates, independents, soft liberals hate this stuff. And so you're seeing
00:26:53.760 them flock over to the Republicans. So you got these three great issues that Republicans can run
00:26:59.080 on, immigration, education, and crime. There's one other issue that really shows you the gap
00:27:04.500 between the Democrat base and every single other demographic in the country. And that is the media,
00:27:12.080 the establishment, legacy, corporate press. Rasmussen just took a poll. Do you agree or disagree with
00:27:23.400 this statement? The media are truly the enemy of the people. I assume for most people listening to
00:27:30.900 this show, you would say, well, that's a no-brainer. That's easy. Here's the breakdown by demographic.
00:27:37.000 White people, 56% agree the media are truly the enemy of the people. So white people, it's only, 0.80
00:27:44.200 you know, 56, say 44. So it's not evenly split, but relatively close. Black people, 63% say the media
00:27:53.620 are the enemy of the people. Other non-white people, 60% say the media are truly the enemy of the people. 0.50
00:28:00.080 So non-white people are more likely to hate the media and think that the media are opposed to the
00:28:05.260 people than white people are. And still the majority of white people think that too.
00:28:10.240 Unaffiliated voters, 61% say the media are the enemy of the people. GOP says 76% or 76% say the
00:28:18.460 media are the enemy of the people. Among all voters, 58%. So clear majority of all voters hate the media.
00:28:26.220 The only group that does not agree with that statement, Democrats, 37%.
00:28:32.140 So you see the problem here for Democrats? The problem is that black people, Hispanic people, 1.00
00:28:42.520 I guess maybe some Asians included as well, non-white generally, even white people, though in a weaker way,
00:28:50.880 all of those groups and independents and the unaffiliated, they agree with the Republicans
00:28:58.920 much more than they agree with the Democrats on this issue, on the issue of the media.
00:29:05.400 They also agree with the Republicans much more than Democrats, maybe not every single group,
00:29:10.540 but still on the whole, they agree with Republicans over Democrats on crime, on education, on immigration.
00:29:16.700 So you've got three regular political issues, just the, you know, the sort of stump issues that
00:29:23.580 political candidates talk about. And then you've got this one meta-political issue, the media,
00:29:29.380 like the politics of politics. There are political issues, the policies that govern our country.
00:29:35.500 Then there are the medical issues, the meta-political issues, which are the policies that govern politics,
00:29:40.640 how the media are run, how the elections are run, how we count the votes.
00:29:45.100 And on both levels, you're seeing a breaking of pretty much every demographic for the Republicans.
00:29:52.780 So why, why won't Democrats change course? Because they're beholden to their base.
00:30:01.560 Their base has helped them before. The base doesn't appear to be sufficient now.
00:30:06.240 The left is overestimating the amount of influence and clout that they have politically and culturally.
00:30:14.280 You saw this in the case of Neil Young. Neil Young came out. Neil Young, a very well-known musician
00:30:24.840 decades ago. Neil Young, a very whiny hippie from Canada. Neil Young said, it's Rogan or me.
00:30:35.240 I don't lie. Neil Young, who, who with Crosby, Stills and Nash went on the free speech tour in 2006,
00:30:43.660 told Spotify that if they don't censor Joe Rogan for having medical experts on his show who disagree
00:30:49.000 with the prevailing narrative and Dr. Fauci, that he will pull his music from Spotify.
00:30:54.760 And Spotify said, okay, Neil, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
00:30:58.680 Neil Young said, what, what are you talking? Didn't you hear what I said? Hey, hey, my, my.
00:31:07.860 I don't want to say goodbye. And they said, see ya. See ya, buddy. Bye-bye, Neil.
00:31:13.080 But I have six million listeners a month. Right. Joe Rogan has 200 million listeners a month. So
00:31:18.420 bye-bye. And I think he was shocked. By the way, I don't even think it was Neil Young's call to make
00:31:24.560 because I don't think Neil Young owns the rights to that, to that music, right? I assume those songs
00:31:31.880 are owned by some larger music corporation, by a larger catalog. So it created a sticky situation.
00:31:37.740 And he said, I'm going to pull. And, and Spotify said, okay, get, get all your music off. See ya.
00:31:43.740 10, 15 years ago, that couldn't have happened. 10, 15 years ago, Joe Rogan couldn't have happened.
00:31:49.140 You would have had in the, in those days, this would have been 2010 going into the early 20 teens. You
00:31:55.740 had really just the beginning of the new media. Twitter was relatively new. The podcasting was
00:32:01.700 relatively new. You had some people pioneering it like Adam Carolla actually, but still the
00:32:08.880 establishment media, meaning the news media, meaning the entertainment media, like Neil Young,
00:32:13.680 meaning Hollywood, that, that still had a big lock on things. Now, not so much. And so Spotify
00:32:21.960 stands with Joe Rogan. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. We're trying to figure out who's got the influence,
00:32:28.080 where the influence is, where the threats really lie. They want to shut up Joe Rogan because he's
00:32:32.140 cracked up much of the leftist influence over the country and they want to tamp it down and it's not
00:32:38.080 working. Speaking of influence, president Trump has just weighed in on a congressional race,
00:32:44.520 very close to home in my new home of Nashville, the Tennessee fifth congressional district.
00:32:51.480 He has endorsed Morgan Ortegas, who's a friend of mine. She worked at the state department,
00:32:56.920 lovely lady. As she's a recent arrival in Nashville, she's running against Robbie Starbuck,
00:33:02.360 another friend of mine, Robbie Starbuck, also another recent arrival in Nashville.
00:33:08.020 They are both running against several other candidates who are from Nashville, who've spent
00:33:12.000 a lot of time here. One of them is Beth Harwell. She was the speaker of the Tennessee House of
00:33:16.720 Representatives. Doesn't have nearly as much national name recognition, not as much media presence,
00:33:21.640 but much more local, probably name recognition, much more experience in the district.
00:33:28.120 So you're going to see, regardless of any of these, there are other candidates as well,
00:33:31.660 but regardless of, I generally don't endorse in primaries. I don't think that's my role.
00:33:40.320 But what you're going to see play out here is a real question of where does the influence lie?
00:33:45.560 When you're looking at candidates like Morgan and Robbie versus candidates like, say, Beth and the
00:33:50.240 other locals, you're going to see the question, where is the influence? Is all politics still local,
00:33:54.400 like Tip O'Neill used to say, or is all politics national now? Has that shifted? Are we not really as
00:34:00.520 attached to our local congressional districts or counties or towns? Are we more attached to the
00:34:05.960 national political party? Whoever comes out on top, that might tell you something. And then the big
00:34:12.040 question is, what's Trump's influence? What is Trump's influence here? Trump is making some big bets.
00:34:21.080 He's endorsing in primaries. Most likely for a lot of seats around the country and all but one in
00:34:29.340 Tennessee, they're going to break Republican in the general election. So that's not the issue.
00:34:34.640 The question is, who wins the primaries? Some people were upset with Trump. Some people wanted
00:34:40.620 Trump to endorse Robbie Starbuck. Some people are upset that he endorsed Morgan. There are all these
00:34:46.780 little factions of the GOP fighting now for the influence over Trump. But the bigger question is,
00:34:51.540 does Trump have influence in the districts? If Trump's nominees win the primaries, frankly,
00:34:58.700 regardless of whether or not they win the general, that's going to tell you a lot about Trump's
00:35:03.200 standing in 2024. If he is still the kingmaker in 2022, he's going to go into the 2024 race with a lot
00:35:10.160 of momentum. If Trump's endorsements do not matter in 2022, if he endorses primary candidates and then
00:35:17.840 their opponents win the primaries, Trump is going to go into 2024 looking pretty weak. I think in that
00:35:24.820 case, you're going to see much more of an opening for the other candidates who are on that list.
00:35:29.160 Mike Pence, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, people who weren't even on that list.
00:35:35.520 Big stakes. Trump is taking a risk here, but he's got to do it because he's got to shore up his
00:35:39.340 support looking into 2024. What is his clout? Who is going to win? Speaking of winning, really
00:35:46.620 excellent news out of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It's a sentence I didn't
00:35:53.500 think I would say ever. Really great news out of OSHA. They have withdrawn the vaccine mandate for
00:36:01.480 private employers. Now, hold on. You might be saying, Michael, I thought the Supreme Court
00:36:07.100 struck down the OSHA mandate. Yes and no. The Supreme Court suspended the OSHA mandate
00:36:16.920 while litigation went through and all of these cases were heard in the lower courts.
00:36:22.100 And the Supreme Court said that very likely the people who are going up against the OSHA mandate
00:36:25.900 are going to win on the merits, especially if it gets back up to us, the Supreme Court,
00:36:29.680 hint, hint, wink, wink, we're going to give them the victory.
00:36:31.680 But the OSHA mandate still remained in place. It was just suspended.
00:36:38.120 OSHA has now voluntarily, somewhat voluntarily, withdrawn the vaccine mandate yesterday
00:36:44.100 because they knew that they were going to lose if it went back up to the Supreme Court.
00:36:49.600 A lot of companies before OSHA did that were suspending their own private mandates,
00:36:54.500 but they didn't have to. This is a really important lesson for conservatives who are enamored
00:37:00.680 of the idea that politics is downstream of culture or even the converse of it, that actually culture
00:37:08.660 is downstream of politics and that this is always the case. You only work through the government or
00:37:13.200 you only work through private enterprise. Actually, it's both. What happened in the OSHA case
00:37:17.160 is that a private company, the Daily Wire, and some other companies got together and sued the
00:37:22.920 government. Then the government stopped the mandate. Then a private company changed their
00:37:32.880 private policies, even though they didn't have to. Starbucks changed, for instance, there were other
00:37:36.480 companies too, changed their private policies, even though there's nothing in the court order saying that
00:37:41.280 the private company had to change its mandate. Then the government, yet again, the OSHA agency,
00:37:47.600 withdrew their mandate. I'm dizzy. I'm dizzy with all of this winning. How did that happen?
00:37:54.620 Well, it's because culture influenced politics, politics influenced culture, culture influenced
00:37:58.920 politics again, and it was back and forth and it's really hard to separate those two things.
00:38:02.460 And the left doesn't separate those two things. The left works in the private sphere and the left
00:38:07.240 works in the government. And the left wields the private institutions and the left wields the
00:38:10.820 government. And some institutions, it's kind of hard to tell the difference. Is Google private?
00:38:14.660 Kind of. Is Google the government? Yeah, there's a lot of government in Google.
00:38:20.000 We need to do that too. We need to do that too. The conservatives who say we've got to focus only on
00:38:27.560 the culture and private enterprise and we can never wield the government. They're insane. They've got
00:38:31.920 their head in the sand. They're squishes. Don't listen to that. That's a bad idea. And the conservatives
00:38:36.140 who say, forget about private industry. Let's just wield the government like a cudgel. 0.95
00:38:40.200 And I actually don't think there are many conservatives even saying that, but if there
00:38:44.640 were, they would be missing something too. You need to do both. Politics, culture, society,
00:38:51.460 it's just kind of what we're all doing together, man. And we need to wield what leverage, what
00:38:55.780 influence we have to affect our political vision. Our neighbors to the North living in America's hat
00:39:02.920 are not so lucky. The poor Canadians, as America is getting marginally freer by the day,
00:39:09.580 you get this win at the Supreme Court, you get this win from OSHA, you get this win from private
00:39:13.100 enterprise. In Canada, people are locking down even more. It is now illegal throughout much of Canada
00:39:20.260 to go into a store to buy things if you have not received the Fauci ouchie.
00:39:26.920 They're even making it difficult to go buy groceries. So forget about going in to buy a
00:39:32.780 Gucci handbag. If you go in to buy chicken and bread to feed your family, if you go in to get
00:39:39.840 drugs at the pharmacy and you are unvaccinated, for now in Canada, you are still allowed to do that.
00:39:45.480 You won't be made to starve to death. You won't be made to die without your medicine.
00:39:50.340 But if you do that, you are going to have a guard with you at all times to make sure that you don't
00:39:55.720 buy anything else. Today, big box stores that have a footprint of 1,500 square meters or more
00:40:02.620 are going to have to ask people, customers, to show proof of vaccination. Now, pharmacies and
00:40:07.900 grocery will be exempt from this. So if you're going into a Costco or a Walmart or something like
00:40:12.940 that, where you might be going in to buy groceries or visit the pharmacy, in that case, an employee
00:40:18.020 will have to be with that person as they walk through the store to make sure that they do not go
00:40:22.560 and buy other products or other items that might be in the store.
00:40:27.780 Put that down. Put down. Can I buy the Twinkie? Well, it's a margin call. It's not necessary for
00:40:34.340 your nutrition, but it is still food. Maybe you can buy the Twinkie, but don't buy those flowers.
00:40:38.440 You're not allowed to have flowers. Flowers are for vaccinated people only. 1.00
00:40:42.220 No. Mommy, can I have a candy bar? I guess it's technically food. Mommy, can I have that balloon?
00:40:51.420 No. No balloons. Balloons are for vaccinated customers only. Purely vindictive. Purely wrathful. 0.70
00:41:00.560 These people are already in the store. They're already, it's not, they're not going to spread COVID
00:41:06.140 more because they buy a bouquet of flowers rather than just buying food. Are they allowed to buy
00:41:11.700 alcohol? I don't know. I don't know. I suspect they don't know either.
00:41:18.640 We think this sort of thing could never happen in the civilized world. It is happening in the
00:41:22.420 civilized world. Canada, Australia, parts of Europe. It could happen here. We're not that far off from
00:41:29.780 this sort of thing happening in the United States. Certainly not in the left-wing cities.
00:41:32.780 What has prevented it is not even the charity of our ruling class. Certainly not that. It's not
00:41:41.640 the good intentions of the people. It's the structures of power in the country that even
00:41:48.520 as they've been so toppled in recent decades, still can separate power and influence to some degree.
00:41:55.980 The states still have some power vis-a-vis the federal government. Private industry still has some
00:42:01.240 power vis-a-vis the bureaucratic agencies, for instance. You can still do it for now. Very
00:42:08.580 important to hold onto that leverage and wield it. Speaking of the culture, shocking new docu-series
00:42:14.260 coming out of A&E about Hugh Hefner, the playboy. You know, the man who lived a totally hedonistic
00:42:22.340 existence for his entire life, had a harem of women whom he regularly slept with, all of them at the
00:42:30.820 same time, many, many times per week. Turns out, this is pretty shocking, he was kind of a bad guy.
00:42:37.720 Did you stop the presses? Extra, extra, read all about it. It turns out that Hugh Hefner, who was
00:42:42.740 lauded by the culture for many decades, Hef, turns out he was kind of a bad guy. In this docu-series,
00:42:49.600 they lift the lid on the dark underbelly of playboy. Turns out if you just live with a bunch
00:42:55.440 of prostitutes for many decades and do a bunch of drugs and abuse everybody and just pursue your 0.96
00:43:00.200 own pleasure, that might be kind of dark. There might be an, it's not an underbelly, it's an
00:43:05.180 overbelly. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew this, except that playboy and the
00:43:11.720 popular culture generally presented this very nice, funny, cartoonish image of playboy. The reality was
00:43:17.840 not quite like that. One of the playboy ladies who ran one of the divisions said it was cult-like.
00:43:24.860 The women had been groomed and led to believe they were part of this family. Hef really did 1.00
00:43:28.980 believe he owned these women. We had playmites that overdosed, that committed suicide.
00:43:34.040 Many documentary participants said that Hefner's insatiable appetites led to desensitization,
00:43:40.000 which led him to demand stranger and stranger sexual activities. This led him to watch snuff films,
00:43:46.520 films in which people were being killed, and allegedly forcing others to engage in sex acts
00:43:51.920 with animals or doing so himself. One former playmate said, he scared me in the end. You
00:43:58.140 couldn't satisfy him. He wanted more and more and more. Some people are saying, well, it's really
00:44:03.040 convenient that now, now that Hef is dead, all these women are saying this stuff. They were happy to take 0.98
00:44:07.940 paychecks for many years. They were happy to live this lifestyle for many years. But now that he's dead,
00:44:13.460 they're coming after him, I don't believe any of it. No, look, obviously the women made terrible 0.99
00:44:18.040 decisions, but that doesn't let Hefner off the hook. Of course he did this creepy stuff.
00:44:22.920 He didn't even really hide it, did he? The culture just decided to laugh about it. The culture just
00:44:30.100 decided to admire it. The reason I mentioned the story is not to stomp on the grave of Hugh Hefner,
00:44:36.120 who is, I'm sure, looking up at this show right now in dismay. You hope he's not. You hope he had
00:44:45.180 some kind of repentance, but he didn't really show it, did he? What these playmates are describing
00:44:50.440 is that things just got worse and worse and worse. And this is an important lesson for
00:44:55.460 conservatives as we look at the culture. How do you make a better culture? We have a pretty crappy
00:45:00.280 culture right now. How do you make a better culture? You can't have a better culture without
00:45:07.420 having people do better things. And you can't have people do better things, namely vice instead of
00:45:13.840 virtue, without having inducements and incentives to those better things. And some of those might be
00:45:19.580 through private enterprise, and some of those might be through the government, and some is culture,
00:45:23.420 and some is politics. But as we've been describing, the two are kind of hard to separate. It's kind of
00:45:28.340 hard to see the difference sometimes between public and private, particularly since in recent years,
00:45:33.360 the form of government we have is called the euphemistic public-private partnership.
00:45:39.280 That's what you hear a lot of liberals. We need public-private partnerships. Mussolini had
00:45:42.640 public-private partnerships. We have an idea here that when you engage in some vice and you engage in
00:45:50.520 sin and you live a hedonistic lifestyle for a little bit, it just blows off steam. That'll actually
00:45:55.960 make society more stable. If you permit lots of vice and sin and terrible stuff, that's going to
00:46:00.080 make society more stable because people aren't going to be so repressed. That's not how it works.
00:46:05.580 Virtue and vice actually are habits. The more vice you commit, the more vicious it's going to get.
00:46:12.860 The more virtue you practice, the more virtuous you are going to get. You're never going to be perfect.
00:46:18.480 Perfect. You're probably not going to be totally depraved and destroyed and hideous. You're not
00:46:25.940 going to be totally evil and you're not going to be totally wonderfully perfect and holy, probably.
00:46:31.540 But the more you practice one, the more you're going to get. The more you practice the other,
00:46:34.860 the more you're going to get. That's true on the individual level and it's true for society.
00:46:38.540 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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